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CardName: Challenge # 017 Cost: Type: Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Design three one-mana noncreature spells of different colours, with iconic effects for those colours, each of which could have appeared in a particular block from Magic's past but didn't. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Rare

Challenge # 017
 
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Design three one-mana noncreature spells of different colours, with iconic effects for those colours, each of which could have appeared in a particular block from Magic's past but didn't.
Updated on 26 Nov 2014 by Alex

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2011-10-11 18:02:08: Alex created the card Challenge # 017
2011-10-11 18:03:17: Alex edited Challenge # 017

For example, Odyssey block had Firebolt as a one-mana red spell with the iconic red effect of direct damage; Obsessive Search as a one-mana blue spell with the iconic blue effect of drawing a card; and so on. They also have block-specific keyword mechanics.

What would Magic have been like if Odyssey's one-mana burn spell wasn't Firebolt but was Geistflame instead? Probably not that different. But I'm sure someone could come up with a burn spell for {r} that feels iconic for Odyblock but would have made more difference at the time. That's what this challenge is about: just slightly altered histories, seen through the lens of one-mana noncreature spells.

"Magic's past" doesn't have to be particularly long ago; you could do Zendikar, Scars of Mirrodin and Innistrad blocks if you want. But the cards must be all of different colours (including 1 artifact if you want), each with mechanical elements that tie it to one particular set or block, but that weren't actually printed in those blocks.

Placeholder for mine:

­Sudden Shift

­Collection Machine's Solace and Orbital Jump, being cards for Antiquities.

(Could have just taken the easy route and moved stuff out of mirrodin, but never mind.)

I created Hunter's Contempt based on this and Challenge # 114.

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